Medical instrument.



P. JANDOS.

MEDICAL INSTRUMENT.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 23, I918.

1,273,066, Patented July 16, 1-911;

anon W01 Pauli/c6 Jalzdar PAULINE JANDOS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MEDICAL INSTRUMENT.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAULINEYJANDOS, a. citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Medical Instruments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a medical instrument or appliance. i

The object of the invention-is to produce,

cup

Shaped member designed to be placed against a congested part of the patient to create a belt 11, having a a vacuum therearound and draw the skin and portion of the flesh surrounding the congested part into the cup, and thus relieve the congestion.

A further object of the invention is to produce a medical appliance in the nature of a suction member in which a flame is employed in burning oxygen to create a vacuum, and wherein a determined quantity of air may be admitted into the device to reduce the vacuum to accord with the degree of suction by the device upon the part of the person acted on thereby, as well as to entirely destroy the vacuum to permit of the removal of the device from the patient.

Other objects and advantages will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, reference being had to the a6- companying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a view illustrating the application of the improvement.

Fig. 2 is an approximately central longitudinal sectional view, upon a greatly en' larged scale through the improvement.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the same.

Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view of the same.

Fig. 5 is a sectional view through a modification.

As disclosed by the drawings the improved appliance is in the nature of a cup member 6 which is pear-shaped in plan and which has its edge provided with an outturned bead 7.

In the preferred embodiment of the improvement the cup 6, at the center thereof is provided with an opening surrounded by an annular flange or boss 8, the said boss having internal threads which are designed to be engaged by external threads on a valve' or stopper 9. The head of the stopper 9 is provided with a substantially rectangular slot 10, and through this slot may be passed buckle at one of the ends Specification of Letters ram.

thereof to engage with the other end, where- Patented July '16, 1918.

Application filed February 23, 1918. Serial-No. 218,776.

by the device maybe strapped on the person of the patient, as illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings. v

; Integrally formed in the cup is-an angle member providing a bracket 13, the horizontal arm of the said bracket having, upon its outer face an annular flange 14 which is dlsposed directly central of the opening'in the cup and which provides a socket having a short candle 15. The candle is, of course, ignited and the valve or stopper screwed on the cup. The device is then applied to the congested partof the patient, and as the flame consumes the oxygen a vacuum will be created which will cause a suction upon the part of the flesh to which the device is applied, drawing the said part into the cup. The device is preferably constructed of some suitable transparent material, glass pre ferred, and when the vacuum is created, and the flame from the candle extinguished the valve or stopper 9 may be regulated to permit of, a slight entrance of air into the cup,

so as to reduce the vacuum and regulate the suctlon. When the stopper is wholly removed the air flowing into the cup destroys the vacuum and permits of the removal of device from the patient. The-pear shape of I the cup allows the same to be readily arranged between the breasts of the user, the apex of the cup being thus properly positinned at the lower end of the sternum d rectly over the solar plexus, at which part of the human body there is an important group of nerve centers.

It is believed, from the above description,

when taken in connection with the drawings that the simplicity and advantages of the construction will be apparent without further detailed description.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is: j

I 1. In a medical appliance, for the pur:

5 ,to receive a suspending element, and a bracket in the cup designed to receive thereon an ignitible element.

2. In a medical appliance, for the purgose set forth, a transparent cup member- 10 aving a central opening therein, a valve controlling said opening, said valve having a slot at the'outer portion thereof to receive a' suspending element, an angle bracket integrally formed with the cup and arranged interiorly thereof, and said bracket having 15 its horizontal arm formed with an annular flange designed to receive an ignitible element.

In testimony v vhereof I aflix my signature.

PAULINE JANDOS. 

